Guatemalan doctors march to protest lack of medicine, equipment

[Judi Lynn]

Online News EditorFebruary 22, 2022 1 minute read



Guatemala City, Feb 22 (EFE).- Doctors working at one of Guatemala’s two main hospitals marched on Tuesday in the capital to protest the lack of healthcare personnel, supplies and medical equipment to treat patients.

“We came with a single demand: that the public’s right to health be respected,” Napoleon Mendez, a doctor at the San Juan de Dios Hospital, one of the country’s two main hospitals, told reporters.

Mendez, the director of the emergency unit, warned before the Guatemalan Congress that the situation is complicated by the fact that “we’re treating infections without antibiotics” and that there are no “essential” medical supplies with which to treat patients.

“The questions we have are: Where is the money? Where are the millions of dollars in increased spending that should have put us in good shape in the hospitals and yet we’re in short supply and requesting the minimum?” the physician said, adding that he and his colleagues were powerless and were “seeing patients having seizures” without being able to treat them due to the lack of medications.

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[LuckyLib]

1. Where is the money?

That is the question.